‘Like family’: three women – two Palestinian, one Jewish – find peace amid campus chaos

The protests sweeping US universities have brought intense division, but some students have treasured hope, unity, solidarity and love

Seven months ago, before Hamas stormed into Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Eleanora Ginsborg and Samar Omer had never met.

But in the attack's violent aftermath, Ginsborg and Omer, students at the University of California, San Diego, forged a new friendship - and a new sense of activism-fueled purpose. A third student who already knew Omer like a sister", and requested to go by the pseudonym Hala Abdallah out of safety concerns, completed the group.